P38A Thor engine....Air Con breather pipes.

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simoncant

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I have read about the recurring problem of water spraying onto passengers feet(get a new car she said!) so was able to check it all out today. Located the passenger well rubber pipe which was patently seeking to burst its banks so I went underneath where I was expecting a pipe coming sown the side of the gearbox. The only thing I could see was a rubber valve way up by the tunnel that looked like a quartered heart valve. Gave this a good poke about with a long handled screw driver and hey presto was covered with blocked overflow. Very satisfying but apart from me, it covered a couple of electrical connectors. Is this the right fitting or should there be a pipe coming down below crankcase level?
Observations welcome!
 
Had to use the screwdriver as it is so high up and it was a tight squeeze under there(no ramp you see) and presumed the valve was stuck together. If that is the right fitting why is it above electrics?
 
simoncant said:
Had to use the screwdriver as it is so high up and it was a tight squeeze under there(no ramp you see) and presumed the valve was stuck together. If that is the right fitting why is it above electrics?
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When I've done mine I raise the suspension and use axle stands.slide your arm up between the body and bellhousing.works unless you have arms like Popeye. :D
 
The electrics you mean is the xyz switch. it shd either be a sealed unit or have a breather hole with a pipe to the engine bay - either way - design flaw, I agree.
I have heard of folks just cutting out one petal - then nowhere to get clogged, and it's pretty unlikely you'll get a blob of mud up there, unless you're a hard core off roader, or I suppose you can just jam a short length of tube in there
 
romanrob said:
The electrics you mean is the xyz switch. it shd either be a sealed unit or have a breather hole with a pipe to the engine bay - either way - design flaw, I agree.
I have heard of folks just cutting out one petal - then nowhere to get clogged, and it's pretty unlikely you'll get a blob of mud up there, unless you're a hard core off roader, or I suppose you can just jam a short length of tube in there
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It's a one way valve for wading. Although it probably gets air locked up there anyway. I (just) got away with going above the recommended depth. Not intentionally, I might add. The river was running higher than expected one day. @Dopey really went for it once and got away with it. They're really quite well designed with little touches like that.
 
Grrrrrr said:
It's a one way valve for wading. Although it probably gets air locked up there anyway. I (just) got away with going above the recommended depth. Not intentionally, I might add. The river was running higher than expected one day. @Dopey really went for it once and got away with it. They're really quite well designed with little touches like that.
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lol - hope the BeCM didn't suffer
 
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Grrrrrr said:
Mine was about the same depth. You were unlucky there. I did fond water in my airfilter afterwards do I only just got away with it. Air intake is behind the first wing skin so once water is above the wheelarch it gets hoovered up.
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Lucky??? lol, no.... if you knew what went tits up, you would have scraped it
 
Grrrrrr said:
Mine was about the same depth. You were unlucky there. I did fond water in my airfilter afterwards do I only just got away with it. Air intake is behind the first wing skin so once water is above the wheelarch it gets hoovered up.
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There is a maximum wade depth quoted in specs. Go over it at your peril.
 
Dopey said:
Lucky??? lol, no.... if you knew what went tits up, you would have scraped it
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My mistake, it was me that was lucky!

It was one of those point of no return things. If I'd stopped to reverse out I would have lost the bow-wave and the water pushing on that side of the car would have gone even higher up the wing and almost certainly blown it. I gambled on carrying on and got lucky.
 
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